I want to be able to do anything with words: flaming descriptions like Wells, and the paradox with the clarity of Samuel Butler, the breadth of Bernard Shaw and the wit of Oscar Wilde, ...the wide sultry heavens of Conrad, the rolled-gold sundowns and crazy-quilt skies of Hitchens and Kipling as well as the pastel dawns and twilights of Chesterton...I am a professed literary thief, hot after the best methods of every writer in my generation.
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